How Power Lines Could Help Lead to Peace in India’s Kashmir
- Sterlite Power slated to start electricity supply this month
- Jammu and Kashmir lack power for a fifth of peak energy demand
Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg
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In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to supply electricity to every Indian household, connecting homes in the state of Jammu & Kashmir might be the toughest.
Along India’s violence-prone northern border, engineers and construction workers are hauling tons of high-tension wires and steel frames on pack mules across barren deserts and mountain ravines to electrify one of the country’s most inhospitable states. Still, the effort, budgeted to cost 48 billion rupees ($740 million), may turn out to be Modi’s most rewarding.